Topical Quiz – Thursday 11th Nov 2021

Question for the Topical Quiz tonight (6pm BST) on 5 Towns Radio:

1. Which two countries, that didn’t bother to rock up at COP, just announced a major climate change agreement to save the world?
2. Which amazingly marvellous, world class football team beat Harrogate Town on Tuesday to progress through to the next round of the cup?
3. What was the theme for Becky’s rocking show at 2pm this very afternoon on 5 Towns Radio?
4. Which group released their first studio album for 40 years this week – Voyage?
5. Which political group, back in charge in a country I won’t tell you the name of, because that would give it away, have just announced ‘opium is here to stay – it is our lifeline’.?
6. Why did we all have 2 minutes silence today at 11am?
7. Who has just shocked the entire known world by painting over a painting by Banksy?
8. Which former Apartheid president has passed away at the age of 85?
9. How many patients are awaiting hospital treatment in England? 58 thousand, 580 thousand, or 5,800 thousand?
10. Geoffrey Cox accrued at least £6m from second job while a parliamentarian. What does Boris Johnson say about this?

Answers:

1. The US and China.
2. Sheffield Wednesday.
3. Number one hits of the 1950s
4. ABBA.
5. The Taliban
6. Armistice / Remembrance Day.
7. Banksy left his mark on the Bristol set of BBC show The Outlaws – only for it to be painted over by Hollywood megastar Christopher Walken.
8. Last president of apartheid South Africa, FW de Klerk, dies aged 85.
9. Record 5.8m people in England waiting for hospital treatment.
10. Boris Johnson defends MPs’ second jobs but says they must follow ruless. If there is a conflict of interest, for example, then they must be punished.